Japan Foundation is playing host to an exhibition – Indigo and Its Impact on India & East Asia at its New Delhi office starting November 16.
The exhibition which will continue till December 11 except for Sundays and public holidays will showcase the work by Dr. Padmini Tolat Balaram who is presently working as Professor of Design at Visva-Bharati University in India.
Prior to that, she was Professor and Head Extension, D. J. Academy of Design, was visiting/Adjunct Professor at NID, CEPT University, and NIFT. Apart from teaching 16 different design subjects, she has carried out extensive multi-disciplinary research in India, China, South Korea, and Japan and in other Asian countries such as Thailand, Bhutan, and Uzbekistan.
Her first research in Japan was as a Japan Foundation Fellow, on ‘Indigo and Its use in Japan: A comparative study with India’, where she documented and experimented with Nihon Ai, Ryukyu Ai and Indo Ai (Indian Indigo), various Japanese techniques of designing with natural Indigo including Shibori, Kasuri, Tsutsugaki, Bingata, Aigata, Egata, Katazome, Edo Komon, Tsujigahana, etc.
Her research on ‘Textile Route from India to Japan via China and Korea and Its Impact on Japanese Textiles’ and on ‘Confluence of Culture: Indigo among Minorities of Southwest China and South Korea’ as a Japan Foundation and Asia Scholarship
